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GOP aims to boost college quality and student enrollment

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College enrollments have dropped to lows not seen since the Great Recession. Higher education policy experts from the right-of-center think tank American Enterprise Institute have stated that the declining quality of education, degrees with low return on investment, and almost certain post-graduate student debt are at fault. GOP-led efforts might reverse the decline. 

Preston Cooper, AEI’s higher education fellow, told the Washington Examiner, “schools might not offer a strong economic return,” adding that “students at these institutions don’t earn very much relative to how much debt they took on for their education, many of them will not repay their loans in full.”

AMERICANS’ SUPPORT FOR COLLEGE HITS AN ALL-TIME LOW 

In Cooper’s recent

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